John Lee Dumas is the Founder and Host of EntrepreneurOnFire, a business podcast that interviews today’s most inspiring and successful Entrepreneurs 5-days a week. EntrepreneurOnFire is a top-10 business podcast generating over 450,000 unique downloads a month in over 140 countries, and his lineup includes Barbara Corcoran, Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss, Gary Vaynerchuk, Guy Kawasaki, and hundreds more.
Profit Now by being Transparent
In our first episode we interviewed John Lee Dumas who shared with us what he’s learned about entrepreneurial mentorship, leading with value, and listening to your customers. What’s remarkable about what John has accomplished in such short time in the staggering amount of profit he’s generated doing it.
Lead with Value
Albert Einstein said, “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
John Dumas, who we interviewed in our first episode, took up this cause right away with his business, focusing on leading with value first and monetizing second.
Listen to your Audience
In our first episode John Lee Dumas gave our listeners a ton of great advice about how to work with a mentor and how to lead with value. John has put all of this advice to incredible impact, listening to his audience, and producing services and content to meet their needs. What’s more, he’s been fully transparent about the process and how much money he’s made doing it.
John’s podcast and its offshoot businesses leverage his listener base to create revenue and profit. John tells us that his listeners were asking him “how to create products and services.”
His answer is simple: “Listen to your audience and [they] will tell you the services and products they need.”
Get a Mentor
We picked up this tip while interviewing John Lee Dumas, who told us all about how his mentor relationship helped him get over his biggest fears and to just get started leading with value and listening to his audience on the way to impressive profits.